Singapore Ex-Envoy Warns No Roadmap for Worsening US, China Ties

Singapore’s former envoy to the US warned there’s no roadmap to improve ties between the US and China as the two square off over everything from trade to Taiwan.

Any US leader “would want to see America dominant, so there will be this contest,” Chan Heng Chee, a former ambassador to the US between 1996 and 2012, said in an interview with Haslinda Amin at Bloomberg’s New Voices event in Singapore. “There will be a clash head to head.”

At the same time, “I would not say President Trump himself comes to the table feeling very hostile and wanting ...